Crazy Horse Memorial
A mountain-carving monument under construction on privately held land in the Black Hills, honoring the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. The entrance is on US-16/385 about 4 miles north of Custer, SD. When finished the sculpture is planned to reach 641 feet long and 563 feet high; the visitor campus holds a welcome center, restaurant, theaters, and the Indian Museum of North America.
Crazy Horse Memorial is a mountain sculpture carved into the Black Hills of Custer County, South Dakota, on privately held land. It was commissioned by Lakota elder Henry Standing Bear and sculpted by Korczak Ziolkowski, who detonated the first blast on the mountain on June 3, 1948, dedicating the work to the Native American people. The monument depicts the Oglala Lakota warrior Crazy Horse astride a horse and pointing toward his tribal land.
The carving is a decades-long, still-unfinished project. Its planned final dimensions are roughly 641 feet long and 563 feet high, which would make it far larger than the nearby Mount Rushmore faces. The completed head of Crazy Horse is the most visible finished element of the work in progress.
The entrance sits on US-16/385 about 4 miles north of Custer and 9 miles south of Hill City, placing it directly on the main Black Hills touring corridor. The visitor campus includes a welcome center, a restaurant, theaters, the Indian Museum of North America, and the Native American Educational and Cultural Center, and it is open year-round.
A Black Hills anchor stop right on the US-16/385 corridor that ties together Custer, Mount Rushmore, the Needles Highway, and Iron Mountain Road — the monument sits only a few miles off that loop, so it slots naturally into a full day of Black Hills riding out of Custer.
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